Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Made final preparations to fly to the Western Big Four foreign ministers' meeting this week in Paris. As a final note he invited the ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Democrat Fulbright, Wisconsin Republican Alex Wiley-to accompany him to next month's foreign ministers' conference with the U.S.S.R. at Geneva. Fulbright was skeptical, since he regards the foreign ministers' meeting as a working-level session, but hinted broadly that he would like to go to the summit...
...Where foreign policy is concerned, as you know, Chris," said Dulles, "I have always felt that there could not and should not be any interlopers between the President and the Secretary of State." It struck one who was there that Dulles was recalling how his uncle, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State Robert Lansing, had been short-circuited by Wilson's reliance upon his close adviser, Colonel Edward M. House. Then Special Consultant Dulles assured Secretary of State Herter that he, Dulles, would never get in the way. Said he: "I have never wanted to be an interloper...
...nomination of Lewis Strauss went before the Senate's Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee more than three months ago-but the committee did not call Strauss up for questioning until mid-March. Chairman Warren Magnuson hinted at what lay ahead. "There are many, many questions," said Washington Democrat Magnuson, "and many subjects to go into." Last week the committee was still picking away at Strauss, had further hearings scheduled for this week...
Friendly Letters. Red China returned harsh insults for Nehru's soft words. The Peking radio continued to scream that the rebellion had been instigated by "Indian expansionists" and "foreign imperialists" and bluntly named Nehru's daughter Indira, 41, and his sister Madame Pandit, 58, as co-conspirators with the Tibetan "reactionaries." Stubbornly, the Reds repeated the big lie that the God-King's statement in India that he had fled Tibet of his own volition and his denouncement of the Reds for treaty breaking were "fabrications" by imperialist intriguers...
...ousted from his job. De Gaulle's son-in-law declared that Wybot had been "bugging" all of De Gaulle's private conversations for the past 13 years. But what really enraged De Gaulle himself was the fact that Wybot's duties involved only foreign espionage and not internal security; did Wybot therefore consider De Gaulle's patriotism suspect? As for the ever-reticent Wybot, he denied having anything to do with the tapes, insisted that the microphones were not his. "Maybe," said Roger Wybot helpfully, "they belonged to one of the other services...